Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia

The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSCM) is a communist political party in the Czech Republic, founded in 1989 as the successor to the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. The party, along with the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova in Moldova, was one of two political parties in Europe to not drop "Communist Party" from its name, and it adapted its platform to suit the new laws passed after 1989. The party was originally accused of extremism, but it instead aligned with the Czech Social Democratic Party and governed with the CSSD in ten regions. There were repeated calls to ban the party - its youth wing had been banned from 2006 to 2010 - but it remained a major party in the country. In 2017, it held 33/200 Chamber of Deputies seats, 2/81 Senate seats, 3/21 European Parliament, 86/675 regional council seats, and 2,564/62,300 local council seats.